Bad Lads Army is back and this year it’s extreme. Thirty lads face an almighty battle to turn their lives around forever with the most daunting challenge to date – a 3,500 foot solo parachute jump. Produced by Twenty Twenty Television for ITV1.

You don’t get much more extreme than training to be a Para. Back in the 1950s, Para training was as tough as it got for new recruits. It emphasised those qualities sorely lacking in our 21st century wasters: mental and physical strength, courage, endurance, resourcefulness, teamwork and keeping a cool head under fire.

Can these bad boys become an elite force? If so, they’ll be transformed - physically, mentally and morally – into men fit to wear the maroon beret of the British Paratrooper and all that it stands for.

But first they must go through hell - severe discipline, daily ‘beastings’, ice-cold outdoor showers and a diet so basic it includes insects and creepy-crawlies.

Nauyokas could never have passed what he is dishing out! the man is a skinny prat who abused his rank and bullied those of lesser rank in the knowledge they would not retaliate. If they did he would have shat himself and run away like the weak tosser he is! Those who met him or knew him know this fact, which really makes what could be a good programme into a farce.